Kmart Layoffs

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Kmart
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Retailers: Broad Line & Apparel

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Industry Code:

5373

About Kmart:

Kmart is a large American chain of discount department stores with the main office located in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The chain purchased Sears in 2005, as a result a new corporation was formed and it is named Sears Holdings Corporation.

From what I have been told:
More of the store closed off, mostly in the auto section is gone.
Not more pots, pans, towels, pillows coming in.
No more trucks coming in.
Many employees furloughed and probably won't be coming back.
Desperate...
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So I work at the Big Bear Lake Kmart (7653) and now we have had our hours reduced to 9am-8pm. Pretty sure this isn't do the to virus because other Kmarts already are at this hours. I take it as a sign that things are going from bad to worse. Already...
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I know that there has been few Kmarts in new England. but, there wee a lot of Kmarts in Mass, CT and RI. at one point how many were there at the peak? please list the ones you know of in the replies. I will leave the numbers for Maine, Vermont and...
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This is really a big Kmart. the Kmart has been around since the 70s and had a little ceazers/Kmart cafe but they have closed in the recent years. this Kmart has been missed throughout all of the closings. this will be one of the two Kmarts left in...
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The company in Valparaiso In also had their HR person fire people before they closed—- bad practice!!! Then managers from the store hired their family members!!! All the managers sat in their break room for hours at a time—— they should have...
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I heard a rumor, let’s just say through the grapevine, that my local Kmart, one of the few remaining kmarts left, would essentially hang on till the bitter end. Assuming there is an end, and not a last second saving of a few stores. Anyway to tell...
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46 Kmart stores to be closed in January an February 2020, according to things written on Sears forum here:
Based on the posts that have been made here, articles that have come out, and my own calls to stores, here's an incomplete list of 35...
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I realize that Kmart is in need of good, smart labor. Some working are knowledgeable, because they had management experience with Kmart in the past. Not everyone has the will to work hard, or the ability to do some tasks. People who assume a level of...
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Cash has to be completed by 11am and all excess money deposited. No check cashing. And when we try to order change we can't get thru. It says they are experimenting technical difficulties. Ww never had these mandated rules.
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So just because Eddie has won the auction, don't hold your breath. Because don't be surprised if Eddie's "Go Forward" plan includes pretty much killing off Kmart stores in the future. You're jobs are not as safe as you like think believe they are.

Assuming a miracle happens, and SHC somehow survive bankruptcy, what is Kmart going to sell? I was doing gap elimination in auto/sports/DIY and pantry the other day and noticed that 95% of the merchandise was "discontinued" and missing order points...
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Is it okay for managers to pay employees with penny merchandise? I’ve noticed that one employee who was fired is back working, but a manager said she was being paid “under the table” with the penny merchandise.